Buzási Enikő szerk.: In Europe' Princely Courts, Ádám Mányoki, Actors and venues of a portraitist's career (A Magyar Nemzeti Galéria kiadványai 2003/1)

Harald Marx: "THE LUCKY STAR OF PAINTING HAS RISEN" Painting and Art Patronage in Dresden under Augustus the Strong and Augustus III

Zwinger, Pavilion next to the marble Bath of the Nymphs before 13 February 1945. Ceiling painting by Heinrich Christoph Fehling with Hercules Crowning the Saxon-Polish-Lithuanian Coat of Arms a marginal role in Saxony. Even the monumental works for churches were ordered by members of the court. We need think only of Johann Fink's (1628-1675) 17

thcentury ceiling fresco in the chapel of Moritzburg castle, the chapel of Hubertusburg castle decorated by Grone, the passion scenes by Stefano Torelli in the chapel of Taschenberg palace (today in Dresden cathedral), the painted ornaments in the Catholic Hofkirche (court church), or Johann Benjamin Muller's 18

th-century ceiling fresco in the chapel of Josephinenstift. Although some works were commissioned by Protestant congregations and the few monasteries of Lausitz, Saxon painting in the 18

th century was fundamentally secular and not ecclesiastic. "WE ARE RE-LIVING THE AGE OF EMPEROR AUGUSTUS" Dresden painting during the reign of Augustus III When Carl Heinrich von Heineken (1706-1791) published the first volume of engravings he made of the Dresden Gallery, he prefaced it with a dedication to Augustus III (reigned: 1733-1763). In it, he stressed the